The math book

The math book

by Pickover, Clifford A.

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This book covers 250 milestones in mathematical history, beginning millions of years ago with ancient "ant odometers" and moving through time to our modern-day quest for new dimensions

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This book covers 250 milestones in mathematical history, beginning millions of years ago with ancient "ant odometers" and moving through time to our modern-day quest for new dimensions

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2009

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Sterling Pub
  • Place of Publication:New York, NY
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2009

The Physical Object

  • Description:527, [1] pages : : color illustrations ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781402757969, 1402757964, 9781402788291, 1402788290
  • oclc:ocn262694306
  • LC Classification:QA21
  • Dewey Decimal:510.9

Table of Contents

c. 150 million B.C. Ant odometer -- c. 30 million B.C. Primates count -- c. 1 million B.C. Cicada-generated prime numbers -- c. 100,000 B.C. Knots -- c. 18,000 B.C. Ishango bone -- c. 3000 B.C. Quipu -- c. 3000 B.C. Dice -- c. 2200 B.C. Magic squares -- c. 1800 B.C. Plimpton -- c. 1650 B.C. Rhind papyrus -- c. 1300 B.C. Tic tac toe -- c. 600 B.C. Pythagorean theorem and triangles -- 548 B.C. Go -- c. 530 B.C. Pythagoras founds mathematical brotherhood -- c. 445 B.C. Zeno's paradoxes -- c. 440 B.C. Quadrature of the lune -- c. 350 B.C. Platonic solids -- c. 350 B.C. Aristotle's Organon -- c. 320 B.C. Aristotle's wheel paradox -- 300 B.C. Euclid's Elements -- c. 250 B.C. Archimedes : sand, cattle & stomachion -- c. 250 B.C. (pi) -- c. 240 B.C. Sieve of Eratosthenes -- c. 240 B.C. Archimedean semi-regular polyhedra -- 225 B.C. Archimedes' spiral -- c. 180 B.C. Cissoid of Diocles -- c. 150 Ptolemy's Almagest -- 250 Diophantus's Arithmetica -- c. 340 Pappus's hexegon theorem -- c. 350 Bakhshali manuscript -- 415 Death of Hypatia -- c. 650 Zero -- c. 800 Alcuin's Propositiones ad acuendos juvenes -- 830 Al-Khwarizmi's Algebra -- 834 Borromean rings -- 850 Ganita sara samgraha -- c. 850 …

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Allgemeinwissen Geschichte History mathematics Mathematics -- History Mathematik Mathematik -- Allgemeinwissen Mathematik -- Geschichte Mathématiques -- Histoire Popular works

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Pickover, Clifford A.

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